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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa. It is not to be confused with Iowa County Official Website History Wikipedia Iowa City is a city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States. It is the home of the University of Iowa and county seat of Johnson County. Iowa City was the second capital of the Iowa Territory and the first capital city ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Dubuque County, Iowa. Official Website Dubuque County is named for French trader Julien Dubuque, the first European settler of Iowa, and an early lead mining pioneer in what is now Dubuque County. Dubuque was French Canadian, and had (by most accounts) a friendly relationship with the local Fox tribe of Native Americans. He and oth...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Delaware County, Iowa. Official Website The county takes its name after the U.S. state of Delaware. Adjacent Counties Buchanan County Clayton County Dubuque County Fayette County Linn County Jones County Cities Colesburg Delaware Delhi Dundee Dyersville Earlville Edgewood Greeley Hopkinton Manch...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Clayton County, Iowa. Official Website The county was established in 1837 and was named in honor of John M. Clayton, United States Senator from Delaware and later Secretary of State under President Zachary Taylor. Adjacent Counties Allamakee County Crawford County, Wisconsin Grant County, Wisonsin Dubuque County Delawar...
This project is for those buried in Pine Hill Cemetery, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa The cemetery was founded by A.C. Fulton, who, in 1854, bought the land, planted evergreen trees, gave it the name Pine Hill, and had the land laid out in lots for burials. The first burial took place in 1855. Until 1921, the cemetery was maintained in sections by several area churches. In 1921, a group of nin...
This project is for those buried in Dexter Cemetery, Dexter, Dallas County, Iowa. IA Gen Web Iowa Gravestones Find A Grave Billion Graves
Iowa Veterans Cemetery is located in Van Meter, Iowa. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Prairie Center Cemetery, Packwood, Jefferson County, Iowa. The cemetery is also known as Packwood Cemetery and West Packwood Cemetery . Find a Grave Iowa Gravestones IA GenWeb
This project is for those buried in Violet Hill Cemetery, Perry, Dallas County, Iowa. Violet Hill Cemetery is on the north side of the town of Perry. To reach the cemetery, take 1st street to Park St, and continue to the cemetery. It is divided into two sections by 8th Street which goes north and south through the middle, making two distinct parts. The west side has a burial dated 1849, Welco...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Dallas County, Iowa. Official Website The land that now forms Dallas County was ceded by the Sac and Fox nation to the United States in a treaty signed on October 11, 1842. Dallas County's name referred to United States Vice President George M. Dallas, who served from 1845 to 1849. Adjacent Counties Adair County Guthrie Count...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Guthrie County, Iowa. Official Website The county was formed on January 15, 1851 and named after Captain Edwin B. Guthrie, who had died in the Mexican–American War. Adjacent Counties Greene County Dallas County Adair County Carroll County Audubon County Cities Adair Bagley Bayard Casey Coon Rapids Guthrie...
Wikipedia The University of Iowa (also known as the UI, or simply Iowa) is a flagship public research university in Iowa City, Iowa. Founded in 1847, Iowa is the oldest university in the state, and it is considered a Public Ivy. The University of Iowa is organized into eleven colleges offering more than 200 areas of study and seven professional degrees. The Iowa campus spans 1,700 acres cent...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Polk County, Iowa. Official Website The county was established in 1846 and was named for United States President James K. Polk, who served from 1845 to 1849. Adjacent Counties Boone County Dallas County Madison County Warren County Story County Jasper County Marion County Cities
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Monona County, Iowa. Official Website The area around present-day Onawa was a stopping point in 1804 for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark during their exploration of the newly obtained Louisiana Purchase. Many years later, that site was memorialized as the Lewis and Clark State Park. Monona County was formed in 1851. It was perha...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Madison County, Iowa. Official Website Madison County was formed on January 13, 1846. It has been self-governed since 1849. It was named after James Madison (1751–1836), the fourth President of the United States. Hiram Hurst, a suspected murderer, arsonist and hog thief, was the first white settler in Madison County, having come f...
This subportal is part of the State of Iowa Portal and the Cemeteries, Memorials & Graveyards Portal . Within the 947 towns and cities that make up the State of Iowa , there are approximately 4,900 cemeteries. These range from small, private family burying grounds with only a few graves to large public cemeteries covering hundreds of acres with hundreds of thousands of graves. This pr...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Henry County, Iowa. Official Website Henry County was formed on December 7, 1836 under the jurisdiction of Wisconsin Territory, and became a part of Iowa Territory when the Iowa Territory was formed on July 4, 1838. It was named for General Henry Dodge, Governor of the Wisconsin Territory. Adjacent Counties Des Moines County L...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Crawford County, Iowa. Official Website In January 1851, the Iowa Legislature authorized the creation of 50 additional counties in the state. Due to its lack of inhabitants, the designated Crawford County area was attached to Shelby County for purposes of revenue, taxation, and judicial matters. In 1855 there were sufficient settl...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kossuth County, Iowa. Official Website Kossuth County was founded on January 15, 1851. It was named after Lajos Kossuth, Regent-President of Hungary who went to exile to America following the war of independence of Hungary from the Habsburg Dynasty. Adjacent Counties Faribault County, Minnesota Martin County, Minnesota Winne...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Marshall County, Iowa. Official Website The county was formed on January 13, 1846 and named after John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Adjacent Counties Jasper County Story County Grundy County Tama County Hardin County Cities, Townships & Communities Albion | Bangor | Clemons | Dunbar | E...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Official Website The county was a part of the Pottawattamie Purchase of 1847 and takes its name from the Potawatomi Tribe. Adjacent Counties Harrison County Shelby County Washington County, Nebraska Cass County Montgomery County Mills County Sarpy County, Nebraska
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Hamilton County, Iowa. Official Website The county was named to honor William W. Hamilton, a President of the Iowa State Senate. Adjacent Counties Boone County Story County Webster County Hardin County Wright County Cities, Townships & Communities: Blairsburg, Cass, Clear Lake, Ellsworth, Freedom, Fremont, Hamilton,...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Story County, Iowa. Official Website In 1846, the boundaries of Story County were established. The county has an area of 576 square miles and is square in shape. The county was named after Joseph Story, a pre-eminent United States Supreme Court justice, in 1853. Adjacent Counties Hamilton County Hardin County Boone County ...
This project is for those that were born, lived or died in Union, Hardin County, Iowa. Union was laid out in 1868 and was incorporated as a town in 1874. Cemeteries Cemeteries of Iowa
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Montgomery County, Iowa. Official Website The county was founded in 1851 and was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 while trying to capture Quebec City, Canada. It is famous as the location of the unsolved Villisca Axe Murders committed in 1912 and the birthplace of Clyde Cess...